Counting-delivery for printing and similar machines.



L. A; SCHMIDT. COUNTING DELIVERY r02 PRINTING AND SIMILAR MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED 13212.3, 1911.

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LOUIS A. SCHMIDT, OF N1E\1V YORK, N. Y.. ASSIGNOR TO R. HOE AND CO., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEVJ YORK.

COUNTING-DELIVERY FOR PRINTING AND SIMILAR MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

atented J an. 27, 1914.

Application filed April 3. 1911. Serial No. (58,527.

To all IU/ Zfit it may concern Be it known that l. Loris euuuyr. a citizen of the l'nited Hates, residing at New York. county of Kings. and State of New York. have invented certain new and useful linprovemcnts in Countiug-Deliveries for Printing and Similar .dachiues. fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to improvements in counting deliveries for printing and similar machines.

in machines for handling and delivering sheets or papers, such. for inslancc,as printing machines of the fast running weh type. the papers are ordinarily delivered to a traveling receiver. such. for instance, as a series of bolts. To facilitate the suhseipu-nl handling of the papers it. is desirable to separate the papers on the receiver in such a way that they may he removed from the receiver in predetern'iined lots. This separation into lots is usually eli'ected in displacing a paper after a predetermined numher have been delivered to the receiver. the usual method being to cause the paper to he thrown forward so that it 'irojects considerably beyond the rest of the pa pet's. There is. however. liability that this marking paper may become displaced. so that the papers will not be properly sei iarated when removed from the receiver.

The present invention has {or its object to produce an improved counting or indicating delivery for printing or other similar machines in which the papcrs or similar product shall be automatically hunched or arranged in packs containing a predetermined number.

With this and other objects not specifically referred to in view. the invention con sists in certain constructions. and in certain parts, improvements and combinations as will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically pointed out.

Referring to the drawings. Figure 1 illus trates in front. elevation so much of a delivery mechanism as is necessary to an understanding of the invention. Fig. 52 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the construction illustrated in Fig. 1.

Referring to the accorapanying drawings as the invention is particularly applicable for use in printing machines. it is shown in c nucction with a printing machine dolivery. although it may he used with other machines.

Machines embodying the invention will includa receiver for the papers or other product. \vhich receiver may he of any suitable construction, hut. in the best constructions, it will he ol the lravcling type. in the construction illustrated. the receiver comprises a plurality of hells or tapes 1, supported by pulleys mounted on a shaft 3. Constructions eluhodying the invention will also include suitahlc means tor-delivering the papers or otherpriulucl to the receiver.

While the details ol this delivcrv meclr auism may he varied. in the particular construction shown. the delivery mechanism includes a rotating fly. the blades of which are marked l. this lly lacing mounted on a shat t 5, the construction heing a \vellkiunvn. one in printing machines. In the construction illustrated. the papers are received from a folding cylinder diagrammatically indicated at ti. and after passing through a pair of folding rolls 7. the papers drop on the blades 4. being guided in their movement hv guides 8. as is usual in such constructions. These guides 8 have their lower portions hent. hackvvardly. as indicated at 9. so as to cause the papers to he properly delivered to the l'tlliVl and to insure their clearance from the hlades of the tan. 7

Machines cmhodying the invention will include means for hunching papers or other product on the receiver after a predetermined numhcr has heeu delivered thereto. .\s illustrated. there is provided a pair of hunching or pusher lingers it). These fingers are carried on hlocks l] which are pivoted on studs 12 projecting from hracl 'et arms '13. These hraclcct arms are the arms v. hich support the guides 8, and it Will he ohserved that the pivot points of the hunching or pusher lingers are located within the circumference dcscrihed hy the ends of the lly flu ers, so that the pivoted fingers act as extensions of the guidcs 8 and assist in controlling the papers on the tly and delivering them. These pusher lingers. when this form of hunehing mechanism is employed,n1ayhe actuated in any suitahle. way. in the particular construction illustrated. the blocks 11 are connected by rods it to pilns 15 mounted on a roclrshat't 16. This rocloshaft is provided with an actuating arm 17 which in the construction shown, has a cam roll 18 mounted thereon. In the particular construction illustrated, thisroll 1S cooperates with a rotating actuator 19 having a notch 1 This actuator, when it is constructed in the man at 20 in the circumference thereof.

ner described, and'as in the construction shown, may be mounted on the shaft 3, as this shaft runs at a lower speed than the fly shaft. In the particular construction illus trated, this shaft 3 is driven by bevel gears 21, 22, the gear :22 being fast to worm shaft provided with a worm gear 23 meshing with a worm 24 on the fly-shaft 5.

The arm 17 before referred to may be provided with a spring rod construction of the ordinary type to cause the roll 18 to follow closely the circumference of the rotating actuator.

The gearing by which the actuator shaft is driven will be such as to cause the actuator to effect the operation of the pusher after a predetermined number of papers have been delivered to the receiver and the gearing will, of course, be varied according to. the particular number desired. \Vhen, however, the roll 18 drops into the notch 20 in the actuator disk, in the construction shown, the pusher fingers will move into the, position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, and sweep the papers on the receiver into a pack. On the further movement of the actuator, the roll 18 passes out of the notch and the pusher fingers will bewithdrawn into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, thus permitting' the papers to fall upon the receiver. They will fall in an overlapped or fannedout condition until a predetermined number of papers have been delivered, when the pusher fingers will again come into action and sweep the fanned-out papers together into a bunch or pack. It will be seen that by thus arranging. the papers on the receiver in bunches or packs containing a predetermined number of papers the subsequent.

handling of the papers will be greatly facilitated.

Changes and variations may be made in the construction by which the invention claimed is carried into effect. It will be understood, therefore, that the invention claimed is not to be confined to the particular construction herein shown and described.

What is claimed is 1- Ina counting delivery, the combination with a'receiver, of a rotating fly for delivering papers thereto, a shaft on which the fly is mounted, a rotating actuator, an actuator shaft, gearing for rotating the actuator shaft at lesser speed than the fly shaft whereby the actuator is brought into operation after a predetermined number of revolutions of the fly shaft, a rock shaft controlled from the actuator, a set of pivoted pusher fingers arranged to engage the papers on the receiver, the pivots of the fingers being located within the circumference described by the ends of the fly fingers, and connections be-v t een the pusher fingers and the rock-shaft. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto setmy hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS A. SCHMIDT.

Witnesses:

- RICHARD KELLY,

JOHN WILLIAM JORDAN. 

